firmly ambivalent

...staying a safe distance back at all times...

Friday, March 19, 2004

THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING

Well, it turns out that there's a reason that we sometimes hold our book in one hand while keeping the other hand free for, er, other activities. Or so I've learned from the review of Solitary Sex in the latest NYRB. Funny, too, that the hallmarks that characterize an avid reader can also be applied to the act that dare not speak its name: privacy, fantasy, and insatiability.